1/23
BREAKING: Judge CHUTKAN has unsealed Jack Smith's 165-page redacted motion re presidential immunity. Read it here:
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.258148/gov.uscourts.dcd.258148.252.0.pdf
2/23
NEW DETAILS FROM JACK SMITH
1) A Trump campaign employee and alleged coconspirator sought to foment chaos at the TCF ballot processing center in Detroit.
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.258148/gov.uscourts.dcd.258148.252.0.pdf
3/23
2) Pence told Trump he saw no evidence of outcome-determinative fruad. They had MANY conversations, some detailed in Pence's book, which prosecutors cite.
4/23
3) Smith says he plans to prove at trial that Trump and his alies made up claims about noncitizen voters out of whole cloth.
5/23
4) Trump repeatedly promised to "package up" and provide evidence to Gov. Ducey, Gov. Kemp and Rusty Bowers re: election fraud but never did.
6/23
5) Mark MEADOWS (P21) and a WH lawyer (P9) exchanged messages on Dec. 3, 2020 confirming that a stat re dead voters was false.
7/23
6) A U.S. senator (P27) helped facilitate a Dec. 8 call between Trump and Georgia AG Chris Carr.
8/23
7) Trump clearly addressed Carr as a political candidate, per Smith's filing, saying "we're running out of time," talked about the Georgia runoffs and electing Loeffler/Perdue. He told Carr not to lobby other AGs against signing onto a Supreme Court amicus brief.
9/23
8) Trump asked RNC chairwoan Ronna McDaniel to meet with Michigan GOP leaders but she said she coudln't because it could be considered lobbying.
Trump dialed her in anyway.
10/23
9) Rudy tried to text a Michigan GOP leader a proposed resolution declaring the election in dispute -- but he sent it to a wrong number.
11/23
10) On Nov. 20, Trump muted his phone while Sidney Powell was talking and mocked her repeatedly, calling her claims "crazy" and making a Star Trek reference.
12/23
11) Ronna McDANIEL told turp she would not promote a report claiming Dominion voting machines had been manipulated in Michigan's Antrip county, in part because she had been told the report was "fukking nuts."
13/23
12) Ken Chesebro (CC5) was instructed by co-conspirator 6 to only communicate by text with him and John Eastman.
14/23
13) Smith provides details of private texts and conversations Trump was having with alleged co-conspirators just around Christmas, all related to the pressure campaign against Mike Pence.
15/23
14) Trump spoke to Bannon on Jan. 5 less than two hours before Bannon predicted on his War Room podcast that "all hell is going to break loose" on Jan. 6.
16/23
15) When Trump allies learned that Pence's lawyer, Greg Jacob, had refused to back up their plan to subvert the election, Bannon (P1) responded, "fukk his lawyer."
17/23
16) ! Trump was *alone* in the Oval Office dining room when he tweeted his attack on Pence, prosecutors say, even as the Fox News broadcast he had on made clear the Capitol had been breached and was locked down.
18/23
17) Smith lays out more details of Giuliani's effort to lobby lawmakers to continue challenging election results even as the Capitol remained locked down and police were clearing the building.
19/23
NEWS: Jack Smith reveals his most detailed and damaging evidence of Trump's scheme to subvert the 2020 election, from repeating fraud claims he knew to be false and tweeting his Jan. 6 attack on Pence while alone in a WH dining room.
w/ @joshgerstein
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/10/02/jack-smith-trump-case-00182258
20/23
Jack Smith says Trump made knowingly false claims about election fraud in 2020.
Trump, responding to the new filing, makes knowingly false claims about why this document was released today.
(It was filed on Sept. 26 and unsealed by Judge Chutkan — not DOJ — today)
21/23
MORE: WHen Trump was informed that Pence was taken to a secure location during the Jan. 6 violence — just minutes after Trump had attacked him in a tweet — Smith says Trump's response to an aide was "So what?"
22/23
Smith plans to introduce evidence fome an FBI forensic examiner showing Trump's phone use on Jan. 6 —- and tha the was using the Twitter app consistently throughout the day after his speech.
23/23
Per Smith, Trump told Ivanka and Jared Kushner: "It doesn't matter if you won or lost the election. You still have to fight like hell."
To post tweets in this format, more info here: https://www.thecoli.com/threads/tips-and-tricks-for-posting-the-coli-megathread.984734/post-52211196